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Swarm launch: third stage release

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Title Swarm launch: third stage release

Released 21/09/2012

Length 00:00:19

Language English

Footage Type Animation

Copyright ESA/AOES Medialab

Description

ESA’s Swarm mission is dedicated to identifying and measuring precisely the different magnetic signals that make up Earth’s magnetic field. The three identical Swarm satellites are launched together on a Rockot launcher from Plesetsk in northern Russia. After the fairing has been jettisoned, the rocket’s third stage is released leaving the Breeze-KM upper stage and three Swarm satellites. This happens 135 seconds after the fairing has been jettisoned, or 305 seconds after liftoff.